Please read eFlora of India as eFlora of Pakistan
-- Dr. Gurcharan Singh Retired Associate Professor SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 4:45 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > These two types of plants of Ixora have been bothering me for a long time. > Both differ clearly from similar species I. pavetta in much longer corolla > tube, 20-30 mm long. Both have nearly elliptic-lanceolate to > elliptic-oblanceolate leaves, 6-20 cm long, with cuneate base and narrowed > to 5-10 mm long petiole. Both have white flowers, which in one (sp-a) are > lesser in number, forming a spreading inflorescence and petals are flat > nearly 2.5 mm wide. In second (sp-b) flowers are more in number, dense and > forming nearly globose inflorescence; with corolla lobes which are mostly > reflexed along the margin (and looking similar to I. pavetta) so that they > look very narrow (hardly 1-1.5 mm wide), but a few flowers would have flat > corolla lobes which may be up to 2.5 mm wide or so (latter has been > tentatively identified by Dinesh ji as I. finlaysoniana). > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/dinesh_valke/2093739918/in/photostream/ > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/dinesh_valke/2093737856/in/photostream/ > > Ixora polyantha is described from Malabar in India and is commonly > cultivated in Pakistan and India according to eFlora of India. Ixora > finlaysoniana is plant from Thialand, Phillippines, widely cultivated in > China and N E India, as per eFlora of China. > > I have tried to find out differences between the two species from available > sources, but could not succeed. Could any member lay hands to a publication > which describes and keys out both the species, so that our specimens can be > clearly fixed?. > > > > > -- > Dr. Gurcharan Singh > Retired Associate Professor > SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 > Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. > Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 > http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ > >
